🎮 “Ready Gamer One” — GameStop’s earnings. GoPuff’s $9B bodega. Hipster antitrust.
For the 1st time since January’s GameStop stock pop, we actually got GameStop’s earnings report. GoPuff hits a $9B valuation for bringing the bodega to you. And Lina Kahn is bringing the “hipster anti...
24 Maalis 202117min
“Goldman’s burn book” — Railroad’s $27B velocity. Zoom’s ZaaS. Goldman’s kingmaker revolt.
Straight outta an 1872 headline, we got ourselves the most important day for railroads in years. Zoom’s answer to post-Covid? Un-brand itself — it could stick Zoom in your Tinder video dates instead. ...
23 Maalis 202119min
“Football kills cable” — Five Below’s allowance $$$. NFL’s Amazon deal. Garmin’s Millennial GPS.
The winningest chain of the last year may be teen legend Five Below because it’s focused on allowance money, not stimulus money. The NFL’s latest TV deal features 1 small detail that will end the cabl...
22 Maalis 202117min
“Dude, where's my wine suitcase” — Sony’s VR dance. Williams-Sonoma’s generations. Peloton’s influencer army
Williams-Sonoma’s stock popped 18% because it doesn’t care about your style, it cares about your age. Sony’s new Playstation whips up the most important Virtual Reality move of the year. And Peloton o...
19 Maalis 202117min
“Mango is #1 in fruit” — Mission Produce’s fragmentation. Squarespace’s $10B website. Uber’s UK “workers”.
Avocado icon Mission Produce jumps into the mango game because “commodities only exist in the minds of the inept.” Squarespace hits a $10B valuation building websites, but the real story here is its “...
18 Maalis 202117min
“Call me if the range anxiety doesn’t subside in 7-10 days” — VW’s delegation. GoPro’s un-wearables. Tax-apalooza 2021.
Stimulus bill? Check. Vaccines? Coming. Now comes the biggest tax hike in 30 years. Volkwagen has whipped several remedies for range anxiety. And GoPro’s stock has tripled in 6 months because the late...
17 Maalis 202117min
“Breathe in the Stoxygen” — Stripe’s $95B. Tinder’s background check. Airline’s crystal ball.
America’s biggest startup just got bigger, sucking up all the stoxygen in the room. Tinder just made its 1st ever investment in a non-profit so you can background check Brad pre-brunch. And 1 day in M...
16 Maalis 202119min
“We made the 1st ever podcast NFT” — LEGO goes norm-core. Netflix ends password sharing. Coupang out-Primes Prime.
LEGO is winning the toy world by going hardddd into normcore. Netflix is testing tech that prevents you form using someone else’s password. And the biggest IPO of 2021, South Korea’s Coupang, is actua...
15 Maalis 202116min
